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Spookymore 2016

I fucked up.

Every fucking year I tell myself “this is the gonna be the spookiest Spookymore ever” and then I screw the pooch on it somehow. Here, it was by having a con over Halloween weekend, meaning… yeah, I have like no time left to come up with content for it assuming I really do want to spend an entire weekend double-checking AoC laws.

Also, my taste sucks, but I think that can be resolved through the power of the internet. Namely, you.

Here’s a list of all the DVDs/BDs I own. Pick what official release you want me to review; I’ll do two. The only qualification is that the show’s gotta be spooky… or at least it’s gotta have a Halloween episode somewhere. Gotta stay on-theme.

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I would say to review Yamishibai since they are all short episodes, about 5 minutes each if I recall correctly, but there’s also 3 seasons of it out right now. Sadly you don’t own it. Other wise I’ll vote for a Durarara review

The majority of these were based off the CR translation, which I imagine is what the BD or DVD used as well. So reviewing it would kind of be a waste, since from the reviews that have been done it’s fairly clear where the official translation sits in terms of quality. And since that place is “rather good”, it’d be even worse to review because there’s not much to make fun of.

There’s really good horror in anime?.. Isn’t most of it way too campy and/or action-oriented schlock? I mean, sure, there are some series that are technically “pure” horror, but they’re neither good nor scary imo.

Everything I remember to be remotely unsettling was either not horror at all (e.g. Welcome to the NHK!) or not anime to begin with. I could drop a few live-action movie names if you want, though.

Personal favorites: Eraserhead (1977) and The Thing (1982). These are just perfect throughout. Out of the more recent ones, the original Ju-on (2002) contained genuinely creepy scenes that weren’t jump scares nor gore explosions; too bad the narrative fails to tie them together in a coherent manner. I’ve also heard extremely good things about The Babadook (2014), but haven’t seen it myself yet.

Some not outright scary yet deeply unsettling (not in the exploitation sense) movies: Don’t Look Now (1973), Come and See (1985), Jacob’s Ladder (1990), Audition (1999), Mulholland Drive (2001, though I guess most other Lynch movies also fit). Some of these left me in a state of extreme despair, Come and See being the obvious stand-out (for this reason I consider it the best war movie ever made; it’s also available on YouTube with workable English subtitles).

There are also a couple movies from my childhood that I remember being pretty good but unfortunately have failed to identify. Other than that, Korean horror scene has been thriving in the last couple decades, and I haven’t explored it at all. The Japanese scene, on the other hand, seems to have become extremely repetitive in the last 10-15 years, flooding the market with terrible sequels no-one ever asked for, the same way Hollywood does it with movies like Paranormal Activity.

I’d say Jigoku Shoujo (Hell Girl) is a good psychological horror anime.
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni is good horror on the gory side.
Gakkou Gurashi is also good, even though it’s rather… unique (If you decide to watch it, I recommend also watching the opening every episode.)